“If empathy is followed by meaning”

Monday 10.12.2018

Venue: Exhibition Laboratory gallery (Merimiehenkatu 36, Helsinki)

Host: Jaana Kokko

The word empathy is currently on everyone’s lips and figures in our talks like mushrooms in the forest after a rainy day. We try to understand our companions, the novel we read, the piece of music we hear, the painting we see, through empathy. Vulnerability and pain are attributes we use when we try to understand the other. This 1st day of the Research Days is questioning the subsumptive role of empathy, starting from the fact that empathy is not a feeling. The day gathers together artist from different fields.

This first research day presents a free model for gathering together and encouraging taking part in the discussion. Being together is also asking how we learn in the academic context. Soup will be served!

9:00 COFFEE

9:30–9:40 Jaana Kokko: Some words about vulnerability and strength
Artist, Lecturer Time and Space department, Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki

9:40 MOVING
Satu Palokangas
Dancer, Somatic educator, Berlin

10:40 READING
Maarja Kangro
Writer, Poet, Translator, Tallinn

11:40 PRACTICING
Jaana Kokko
Aune Kallinen, Performance Artist, Lecturer Theatre Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki

12:00–13:00 EATING (SOUP) Lunch included

13:00-14:15 LISTENING
Jarkko Hartikainen, Composer, Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki

Riikka Talvitie, Composer, Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki

Eriikka Maalismaa, Violinist, Helsinki PLAYING                      

Hartikainen: EMBODIED: Violin Solo (2018)
Talvitie: Golden Cradle for solo violin (2015)

14:15–15:30 SEEING
Karina Griffith
Visual Artist, Berlin/Toronto, Lecturer Kunst im Kontext, Universitet der Kunst, Berlin

Jaakko Ruuska
Documentarist, Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki

15:30 DRINKING (coffee break)

16:00–17:00 TALKING (closing discussion)